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scarlet letter. My heart was pumping out of my chest, palms beginning to sweat as I walked up the creaky, vintage stairs on the way to my punishment. Public shaming. There are many long lasting effects as shown in Source A, The Scarlet Letter, Source B, Monica Lewinsky’s TED Talk, and Source C, an article entitled “Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence?” In The Scarlet Letter, Governor Bellingham requires Hester Prynne to wear a scarlet letter A on her bosom to represent her sin of adultery.…

once. The "Lewinsky Scandal, sensation that enveloped the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1998-99, leading to his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate" (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 1). It all started when Monica Lewinsky became an unpaid intern at the White House in June of 1995. By November of that year, Lewinsky and Clinton had been having a sexual relationship. Lewinsky had eventually went from being an intern to becoming a paid employee at the…

humiliating and dishonoring people, Are there any benefits? Or should public shaming became a thing of the past? In The Scarlet Letter (Source A), Hester Prynne is known for being a sinner and is shamed because of it. In The Price of Shame (Source B), Monica Lewinski has been publicly shamed for having unnormal feelings for her boss, which happens to be the president of the United States. Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence? (Source C), the article explains how people on the internet can…

The show Friends was a sitcom that ran on NBC from 1994-2004 and it featured its main cast of six friends living in New York. The shows main characters, Monica Geller, Rachel Green, Phoebe Buffay, Ross Geller, Chandler Bing, and Joey Tribbiani, all encompassed a different character type and were well known for being these characters. T.V. sitcoms tend to include some or all of the typical character types we are used to seeing. There are eight character types that can be present in a sitcom,…

1994 to 2004 (Bright, Kauffman, & Crane, 2012). Viewers learned about the relationships among Monica Geller, Rachel Green, Phoebe Buffay, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, and Ross Geller, as they discussed their triumphs and disappointments over countless cups of coffee. In this paper I will be analyzing all six main characters and then two recurring themes through out the TV series. First character is Monica Geller, an aspiring…

Monica Lewinsky is someone that I have only heard about. I didn’t even know who she was, or what she did, but I saw a lot of “memes” mocking her on the internet. I was born in 1999, so I wasn’t even alive at the time of her scandal with Bill Clinton. And my parents didn 't see a need to tell me about her scandal, as it was not going to affect me in any way. There was no reason for me to know. I wasn’t particularly interested in her story either. However, watching her TED talk clarified a lot of…

Musical Showcase WHAT: Unwind from the work week with an incredible musical showcase this Friday night. A classically trained musician, Tom Sharpe 's music is a percussive symphony-a-sonic and visual feast for the senses. Tom has dramatically blended his orchestral background with the world music instrumentation and cinematic imagery to create an experience that invites you into the heart of the musical moment. This wildly emotional and technically precise performance will have you mesmerized…

“So no one told you life was gonna be this way. Your jobs a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s DOA (lil rambents).” “I’ll Be There For You” was the catchy song that would play from enlarged, home televisions on Thursday nights as millions of Americans would join together and spend the next thirty minutes laughing along with the characters from Friends. Friends was a huge hit in 1990s. It piloted it 1994 and ran for ten seasons. The end of this beloved series was like the end of an era, yet it…

Situation comedies, better known as sitcoms, have been around for many years and are usually well liked by a broad spectrum of people. Sitcoms involve a group of characters for multiple episodes and/or series depending on the quality of the certain show. While they are not like reality television of today, they are different than shows that used to come on television such as Bonanza and the Dukes of Hazard. Sitcoms are extremely comedy based which is very different than the western actions that…

The Truth About The Truth About Hillary The book The Truth About Hillary by Edward Klein, seems like a book that would be a great source for political research. At first, it seems to be an exclusive look into the scandalous life of Mrs. Hillary Clinton; however, much controversy has risen over the credentials and solid evidence this book contains. Since the book’s publishing by The Penguin Group Company in 2005, a lot of evidence has surfaced making Klien’s “facts”, questionable. I believe this…